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"We are very glad of that very glad indeed!" he said "Briar Farm is a great feature a very great feature! indeed, one may say it is an historical possession. Something would be lacking in the neighbourhood if it were not kept up to its old tradition and er reputation. I think we feel that I think we feel it, do we not, Mr. Forwood?" here turning to his curate with affable condescension.
"Oh, but you don't know what kind of a place it is, nor what dreadful people live there." "I could get a policeman to go with me, couldn't I?" "Yes, maybe you could, or Mr. Paulding, the missionary. He goes about everywhere." "Where can I find Mr. Paulding?" "At the mission in Briar street." "You'll show me the way there after school?"
Do what you can to make them happy a little treat if necessary; I should not mind it." "Give us fourpence to buy a pound of golden syrup for tea, please, Padre," suddenly said Briar. "If there is a thing I love, it is golden syrup. A pound between us will give us quite a feast won't it, Renny?" "Only we must save a little for the aunt," cried Patty.
Do stand out of the way; I want to stare at myself in the glass." Briar ran to the dressing-table. There she pushed the glass into such an angle that she could gaze contentedly at her features. She saw a small, rather round face, cheeks a little flushed, eyes very dark and bright, quantities of bright brown curling hair, dark pencilled eyebrows, a little nose, and a small pink mouth.
"I have known what the next day meant, even when we had only shilling birthdays. The others used to cry out, 'Your birthday is the farthest off now. I used to keep my head covered under the bedclothes rather than hear them say it. Adelaide and Josephine always said it. But don't let's get melancholy over it now," continued Briar in a sympathetic tone.
I mentioned with a smile that there remained in all of us, women as well as men, some relics of the age of stone. "Of course," he assented cheerfully, "I knew she wasn't namby-pamby. It's rather nice of her, I think, to take so much interest." A few days after that Jerry left me and I knew that Briar Hills was closed again.
Jerry joined me in the study later in the morning and sat for awhile reading the newspapers. He was silent, almost morose, and at last got up and walked about the place. I feared for a moment that he had gone to the garage with the intention of getting into his machine, and this I knew meant nothing less than a ride posthaste, to Briar Hills.
Then she called her husband unto her, and said to him, "Of this sickness I shall die, and thou wilt take another wife. Now wives are the gift of the Lord, but it would be wrong for thee to harm thy son. Therefore I charge thee that thou take not a wife until thou see a briar with two blossoms upon my grave." And this he promised her.
To whom do you allude, and in what direction; do you wish us to go?" said Dorville, as he handed her some sherry and water from his flask; this she drank eagerly, then hurriedly continued the whole group pressing nearer and nearer to the excited woman, to learn by what mischance or accident she had been thrown amongst them at such a time and place, so suddenly "The Collector of Runjetpoora, his wife, daughter, and sister, with his four clerks, their wives and children, have been attacked and captured by a band of twenty mounted mutineers, who have sworn to massacre them, and some of the children have already been cruelly butchered by these remorseless villains; I, alone, escaped, and sought shelter in the jungle, where, from an opening down the ravine, caught a glimpse of your party, and have struggled through brake and briar to implore your assistance.
To neutralize the glaring tints, he pulled down the blinds of the two windows which looked on to a dull suburban roadway, and thus shut out the weak sunshine. Then he threw himself into an uncomfortable arm-chair and sought solace in his briar root.
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